Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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A video essay providing an overview of Susan Sontag's landmark essay "Against Interpretation" (1964) and illustrating some of its ideas with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980).

For a subsequent lesson on film form that moves beyond the simple level of description suggested here, check out this video on form as pattern in Rear Window: youtube.com/watch?v=DpPjdsHG_EI&t=7s